SOLUTION: A student has a 10-question multiple choice test with five answers for each question. In how many ways can the student "guess" at all of the answers?

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Question 257325: A student has a 10-question multiple choice test with five answers for each question. In how many ways can the student "guess" at all of the answers?
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Answer by jsmallt9(3758)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Since each question has 5 answers and since the answer to one question has no impact on the choice of another question (in other words, the answers shosen are independent of each other), then the number of ways answers could be selected would be:

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